The Washington Post’s Lyndsey Layton has a nice piece this morning on the Pentagon flouting environmental clean-up rules set forth by the Environmental Protection Agency. At three Pentagon military bases, dumped chemicals are said to pose an imminent danger. EPA has the right to make the Pentagon clean up the contaminants. But the Pentagon is not recognizing that right.

This is yet another instance of how EPA, from (not) regulating greenhouse gas emissions to ozone standard setting, is getting pushed around by other federal agencies. But it’s also about the arrogance of the Pentagon– the nation’s biggest polluter.-MB

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